The LA Times recently implemented a new policy wherein the word "internment" will no longer be used to describe Japanese camps. Instead, "incarceration" will be used to describe them. What's the diff? "Internment" refers to the confinement of enemy aliens during times of war, not to the imprisonment of a country's own citizens.
The LA Times recently implemented a new policy wherein the word "internment" will no longer be used to describe Japanese camps. Instead, "incarceration" will be used to describe them. What's the diff? "Internment" refers to the confinement of enemy aliens during times of war, not to the imprisonment of a country's own citizens.
I am ashamed to say I was never taught this in school and "discovered" this by accident visiting a museum.